When we think about the limitations of science, we normally contemplate things like dark energy or cures for dread diseases.
Often, though, we come across eye-openers like the one shown here. No one knows why trees grow like this in Poland’s aptly named “Curved Forest.”
From Robert Reich: The right wing is dominating on TV and social media, reaching tens of millions of people and feeding them baseless conspiracy theories and propaganda. Stay informed so you can debunk these lies in real time, and beat back right-wing disinformation.
I suppose if you have a communications platform as wide-reaching as Reich’s, this makes sense.
My megaphone is many orders of magnitude smaller, and thus, I don’t “debunk lies in real time,” nor do I “beat back right-wing disinformation.”
And that’s not only because of the relatively tiny stature of 2GreenEnergy; it’s mainly due to my policy: don’t argue with idiots and lunatics.
The MAGA crowd has very little interest in opening their minds to a world that is of full of facts and based purely on rational discussion.
I wish I could change other peoples’ minds in statistically meaningful ways, but I cant.
Interesting thought here, but it’s one that I dispute.
For simplicity, let’s say that there are two types of people: good and bad.
There is no way for good people, those of conscience and decency, to have “easy lives” on a planet that is baking itself, in a country where a former president is trying to overthrow its democracy.
There is no way for bad people to have “easy lives” period, as they create their own hells in which they are condemned to live.
The only path to happiness is a commitment to making the world a better place.
In an earlier post Are Republicans Jumping Ship? I suggested that the idea that Republicans are leaving the GOP in droves out of frustration with the Trump/MAGA ultra-right might be wishful thinking.
Speaking of which, please check out the piece of photoshop at left.
On the other hand, we can only speculate on the number of efforts that must be underway “as we speak” to take Putin out, from both without as well as within his own inner-circle.
As despicable a human being as Lindsey Graham is, it’s nonsense to suggest that what he said here constitutes inciting a riot. Predicting and inciting to two different things.
Besides, what he says here is correct. Regardless of how carefully we prepare the MAGA world for indictments against Trump, there are going to be riots that might dwarf January 6th, with armed rednecks taking to the streets in cities all around the country.
They will, however, find themselves walking into a wall of 1.3 million members of law enforcement, and assisted, if necessary, by 1.1. million active-duty personnel, armed with billions of dollars of weapons designed to kill people by the thousands.
There is no reason not to believe what Trump’s niece says here.
If he gets away with election tampering, inciting an insurrection, and stealing classified documents, not to mention fraud, extorsion, witness intimidation, etc., he will be empowered to take it up another notch, whatever hellish scenario that may look like.
A video from progressive political action committee “MeidasTouch” (see below) asserts that Republicans are leaving the GOP in droves out of frustration with the Trump/MAGA ultra-right. I would love to believe that, but I’m struggling with the notion. (more…)
It’s a question worth asking.
OK, Florida wants MAGA-style Republicans, and Rick Scott certainly fits the bill. As governor, and deeply in bed with Big Oil, he made it essentially impossible to build solar plants. That will get hateful morons standing up and cheering every day of the week.
But why don’t they find someone who doesn’t look–and act–like he’s from another planet?
Glad to see this.
Commonly, we see EV drivers mocked for filling up tanks of gasoline for their emergency generators in preparation for hurricanes. How asinine.
I’m sure this isn’t the only Halloween display in this vein in 2022, but it’s certainly clever. Somebody deserves credit.
Denial of science in favor of what crackpots say on social media is a phenomenon that, we can only hope, is going to be short-lived in our society.
And, as far as I can tell, it’s distinctly American. We don’t see people in Western Europe and the rest of the developed world kicking modern medicine to the curb.
That said, we’re a different breed of animal. Neither France nor Japan elected a president who suggested swallowing bleach as a cure for COVID-19.
